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BUTTY
Definition of BUTTY
noun
A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Clipping of buttered sandwich or bun + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian Buutje (“buttered bread (sandwich)”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BUTTY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 167 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BUTTY starts with B and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read BTTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BUTTY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BUTTY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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